• Post-Doctoral 04, 2017-Now
MathAM-OIL, AIST, Sendai, Japan Advisor: Prof. Akihiko Hirata
• Visiting Scientist 07, 2016-03,2017
WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Advisor: Prof. Mingwei Chen
• Ph. D. in Condensed Matter Physics 09, 2011-07, 2016
Institute of Physics, Beijing, China Advisor: Prof. Haiyang Bai
• B.S. in Physics 09, 2007-07, 2011
Central South University, Changsha, China
• The development of metallic glasses with pronounced β-relaxation, the correlation between plastic deformation and physical properties of shear transformation zones, the structural origin of β-relaxation and the relation between stress relaxation and β-relaxation, divergent strain acceleration effects in metallic glasses.
• Fabrication of nanoporous materials by vapor phase dealloying method, the dealloying kinetics and morphology evolution of nanoporous structure by vapor phase dealloying method.
Conferences/Presentations
• 10th International Conference on Bulk Metallic Glasses, Shanghai, China 06, 2014
• 22nd International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials, Paris, France (Oral Report) 07, 2015
• 25th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials, Rome, Italy (Oral Report) 07, 2018
[1] Z. Lu, C. Li, J. H. Han, F. Zhang, P. Liu, H. Wang, Z. L. Wang, C. Cheng, L. H. Chen, A. Hirata, T. Fujita, J. Erlebacher, M. W. Chen. Three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoporous materials by vapor phase dealloying. Nature communications. 9, 276 (2018).
[2] Z. Lu, W. Jiao, W. H. Wang, H. Y. Bai. Flow Unit Perspective on Room Temperature Homogeneous Plastic Deformation in Metallic Glasses. Physical Review Letters. 113, 045501 (2014).
[3] Z. Lu, W. H. Wang, H. Y. Bai. Classification of metallic glasses based on structural and dynamical heterogeneities by stress relaxation. Science China Materials 58, 98-105 (2015).
[4] Z. Lu, B. S. Shang, Y. T. Sun, Z. G. Zhu, P. F. Guan, W. H. Wang, H. Y. Bai. Revealing β-relaxation mechanism based on energy distribution of flow units in metallic glass. Journal of Chemical Physics. 144, 144501 (2016).
[5] Zhen Lu, Xiunan Yang, Bao An Sun, Yan Zhuo Li, Ke Chen, Wei Hua Wang and Hai Yang Bai. Divergent Strain Acceleration Effects in Metallic Glasses. Scripta Materialia. 130, 229–233 (2017).
[6] S. V. Ketov, Y. H. Sun, S. Nachum, Z. Lu, A. Checchi, A. R. Beraldin, H. Y. Bai, W. H. Wang, D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, M. A. Carpenter, A. L. Greer. Rejuvenation of metallic glasses by non-affine thermal strain. Nature. 524, 200-203 (2015).
[7] P. Luo, Z. Lu, Z. G. Zhu, Y. Z. Li, H. Y. Bai, W. H. Wang. Prominent β-relaxations in yttrium based metallic glasses. Applied Physics Letters. 106, 031907 (2015).
[8] Y. Z. Li, L. Z. Zhao, C. Wang, Z. Lu, H. Y. Bai, W. H. Wang. Non-monotonic evolution of dynamical heterogeneity in unfreezing process of metallic glasses. Journal of Chemical Physics. 143, 041104 (2015).
[9] P. Luo, Z. Lu, Y. Z. Li, H. Y. Bai, P. Wen, W. H. Wang. Probing the evolution of slow flow dynamics in metallic glasses. Physical Review B. 93, 104204 (2016).
[10] L. Chen, C. R. Cao, J. A. Shi, Z. Lu, Y. T. Sun, P. Luo, L. Gu, H. Y. Bai, M. X. Pan, and W. H. Wang. Fast Surface Dynamics of Metallic Glass Enable Superlatticelike Nanostructure Growth. Physical Review Letters. 118, 016101 (2017).
